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Strong's G4638 σκήνωμα (skenoma)

Skenoma means “tabernacle” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4638 — maarath in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4638
Language Greek
Linked Usages 74
Books 25

Strong's G4638 Quick Answer

Strong's G4638 σκήνωμα (skenoma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. skenoma (skay'-no-mah) n. 1. an encampment 2. (figuratively) the Temple (as God's residence), the body (as an abode for the soul) It has 74 linked Bible usages across 25 books. Visible English usage signals include tabernacle and god. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
skenoma (skay'-no-mah) n. 1. an encampment 2. (figuratively) the Temple (as God's residence), the body (as an abode for the soul)
Usage
74 linked usages
Books
25 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
tabernacle and god

Meaning and Definition

skenoma (skay'-no-mah) n. 1. an encampment 2. (figuratively) the Temple (as God's residence), the body (as an abode for the soul) [from G4637] KJV: tabernacle Root(s): G4637

Original Word
σκήνωμα
Transliteration
skenoma
Derivation
Root: σκηνόω R1: 4637
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4638. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

tent

Usage: σκήνωμα, -τος, τό (σκηνόω), [in LXX chiefly for אֹהֶל ;] a tent, tabernacle (cf. σκηνή, σκῆνος): of the temple as God's dwelling (Psa.132:5, al.), Act.7:46. Metaphorical, of the body: 2Pe.1:13-14.† (AS)

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How Strong's G4638 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render skenoma, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

tabernacle 2 Peter 1:13 God Acts 7:46

How Strong's G4638 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 63 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4638 (σκήνωμα) appears 74 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4638 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4638 in the New Testament

3 indexed usages in New Testament.

Acts 7:46 KJV

Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

2 Peter 1:13 KJV

Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

2 Peter 1:14 KJV

Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

Strong's G4638 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

63 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Deuteronomy 33:18 Septuagint / Brenton

And to Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out, And Issachar in his tents.

Joshua 3:14 Septuagint / Brenton

And the people removed from their tents to cross over Jordan, and the priests bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord before the people.

Judges 19:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And the man rose up to depart, he and his concubine, and his young man; but his father-in-law the father of the damsel said to him, Behold now, the day has declined toward evening; lodge here, and let thy heart rejoice; and ye shall rise early tomorrow for your journey, and thou shalt go to thy habitation.

Strong's G4638 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 1:48 Septuagint / Brenton

And after that King Nebuchadnezzar had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, and his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord God of Israel.

Judith 2:26 Septuagint / Brenton

He compassed also all the children of Midian, and burned up their tabernacles, and spoiled their sheepcotes.

Judith 9:8 Septuagint / Brenton

Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.

Usage Excerpts

First 74 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4638.

Deuteronomy 33:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And to Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out, And Issachar in his tents.
Joshua 3:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people removed from their tents to cross over Jordan, and the priests bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord before the people.
Judges 19:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the man rose up to depart, he and his concubine, and his young man; but his father-in-law the father of the damsel said to him, Behold now, the day has declined toward evening; lodge here, and let thy heart rejoice; and ye shall rise early tomorrow for your journey, and thou shalt go to thy habitation.
Judges 20:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the people rose up as one man, saying, No one of us shall return to his tent, and no one of us shall return to his house.
1 Kingdoms 4:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they fought with them; and the men of Israel fall, and they fled every man to his tent; and there was a very great slaughter; and there fell of Israel thirty thousand fighting men.
1 Kingdoms 13:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Saul chooses for himself three thousand men of the men of Israel: and there were with Saul two thousand who were in Michmash, and in Mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and he sent the rest of the people every man to his tent.
1 Kingdoms 17:54 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.
2 Kingdoms 7:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And what other nation in the earth is as thy people Israel? whereas God was his guide, to redeem for himself a people to make thee a name, to do mightily and nobly, so that thou shouldest cast out nations and their tabernacles from the presence of thy people, whom thou didst redeem for thyself out of Egypt?
2 Kingdoms 18:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he took Absalom, and cast him into a great cavern in the wood, into a deep pit, and set up over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled every man to his tent.
2 Kingdoms 19:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then the king arose, and sat in the gate: and all the people reported, saying, Behold, the king sits in the gate. And all the people went in before the king to the gate; for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
2 Kingdoms 20:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there was a transgressor so called there, and his name was Sheba, a Benjaminite, the son of Bichri: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we any inheritance in the son of Jesse: to thy tents, O Israel, every one.
2 Kingdoms 20:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the woman went in to all the people, and she spoke to all the city in her wisdom; and they took off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri; and took it away and threw it to Joab: and he blew the trumpet, and the people separated from the city away from him, every man to his tent: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
3 Kingdoms 2:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the report came to Joab son of Zeruiah; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, and he went not after Solomon: and Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold of the horns of the altar.
3 Kingdoms 8:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the tabernacle of testimony, and the holy furniture that was in the tabernacle of testimony.
3 Kingdoms 8:66 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
their heart was glad because of the good things which the Lord had done to his servant David, and to Israel his people.
3 Kingdoms 12:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all Israel saw that the king did not hearken to them: and the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we any inheritance in the son of Jesse. Depart, O Israel, to thy tents: now feed thine own house, David. So Israel departed to his tents.
4 Kingdoms 8:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joram went up to Zair, and all the chariots that were with him: and it came to pass after he had arisen, that he smote Edom who compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
4 Kingdoms 13:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord gave deliverance to Israel, and they escaped from under the hand of Syria: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as heretofore.
4 Kingdoms 14:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Judah was overthrown before Israel, and every man fled to his tent.
1 Chronicles 5:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they prevailed against them: and the Hagrites were given into their hands, they and all their tents: for they cried to God in the battle, and he hearkened to them, because they trusted on him.
2 Chronicles 7:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he dismissed the people to their tents, rejoicing, and with a glad heart because of the good deeds which the Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
2 Chronicles 10:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for the king did not hearken to them. And the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David, or inheritance in the son of Jesse? to thy tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.
2 Chronicles 11:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the Levites left the tents of their possession, and went to Judah to Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had ejected them so that they should not minister to the Lord.
2 Chronicles 21:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jehoram went with the princes, and all the cavalry with him: and it came to pass that he arose by night, and smote Edom that compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots, and the people fled to their tents.
2 Chronicles 25:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Judah was put to flight before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.
Job 21:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?
Job 39:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, And the salt land his coverts.
Psalms 14:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? And who shall dwell in thy holy mountain?
Psalms 18:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their voice is gone out into all the earth, And their words to the ends of the world.
Psalms 25:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O Lord, I have loved the beauty of thy house, And the place of the tabernacle of thy glory.
Psalms 42:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Send forth thy light and thy truth: They have led me, and brought me to thy holy mountain, And to thy tabernacles.
Psalms 45:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The flowings of the river gladden the city of God: The Most High has sanctified his tabernacle.
Psalms 48:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their sepulchers are their houses forever, Even their tabernacles to all generations: They have called their lands after their own names.
Psalms 51:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore may God destroy thee forever, May he pluck thee up and utterly remove thee from thy dwelling, And thy root from the land of the living. Pause.
Psalms 60:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will dwell in thy tabernacle forever; I will shelter myself under the shadow of thy wings. Pause.
Psalms 68:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let their habitation be made desolate; And let there be no inhabitant in their tents:
Psalms 73:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have burned thy sanctuary with fire to the ground; They have profaned the habitation of thy name.
Psalms 77:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they fell into the midst of their camp, Round about their tents.
Psalms 77:51 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt; The firstfruits of their labors in the tents of Ham.
Psalms 77:55 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he cast out the nations from before them, And made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Psalms 77:60 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh, His tent where he dwelt among men.
Psalms 77:67 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
Psalms 82:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Even the tents of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
Psalms 83:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
Psalms 83:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For one day in thy courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, Than dwell in the tents of sinners.
Psalms 86:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord loves the gates of Zion, More than all the tabernacles of Jacob.
Psalms 90:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
No evils shall come upon thee, And no scourge shall draw nigh to thy dwelling.
Psalms 105:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they murmured in their tents: They hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.
Psalms 119:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar.
Psalms 131:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will not go into the tabernacle of my house; I will not go up to the couch of my bed;
Psalms 131:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Until I find a place for the Lord, A tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Psalms 131:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let us enter into his tabernacles: Let us worship at the place where his feet stood.
Song of Solomon 1:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I am black, but beautiful, Ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Song of Solomon 1:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If thou know not thyself, thou fair one among women, Go thou forth by the footsteps of the flocks, And feed thy kids by the shepherds’ tents.
Jeremiah 9:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For a voice of lamentation has been heard in Zion, How are we become wretched! we are greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, and have abandoned our tabernacles!
Jeremiah 28:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The warrior of Babylon has failed to fight; they shall sit there in the siege; their power is broken; they are become like women; her tabernacles have been set on fire; her bars are broken.
Lamentations 2:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he has scattered his tabernacle as a vine, He has marred his feast: The Lord has forgotten the feast And the Sabbath which he appointed in Zion, And in the fury of his wrath Has vexed the king, and priest, and prince.
Ezekiel 25:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of Kedem for an inheritance, and they shall lodge in thee with their stuff, and they shall pitch their tents in thee: they shall eat thy fruits, and they shall drink thy milk.
Hosea 9:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore, behold, they go forth from the trouble of Egypt, and Memphis shall receive them, and Machmas shall bury them: as for their silver, destruction shall inherit it; thorns shall be in their tents.
Habakkuk 1:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore, behold, I stir up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, that walks upon the breadth of the earth, to inherit tabernacles not his own.
Habakkuk 3:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because of troubles I looked upon the tents of the Ethiopians: The tabernacles also of the land of Midian shall be dismayed.
Zechariah 12:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Judah as at the beginning, that the boast of the house of David, and the pride of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, may not magnify themselves against Judah.
Malachi 2:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord will utterly destroy the man that does these things, until he be even cast down from out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and from among them that offer sacrifice to the Lord Almighty.
Acts 7:46 New Testament, KJV
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
2 Peter 1:13 New Testament, KJV
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
2 Peter 1:14 New Testament, KJV
Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
1 Esdras 1:48 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And after that King Nebuchadnezzar had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, and his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord God of Israel.
Judith 2:26 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He compassed also all the children of Midian, and burned up their tabernacles, and spoiled their sheepcotes.
Judith 9:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.
Judith 10:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then was there a concourse throughout all the camp: for her coming was noised among the tents, and they came about her, as she stood without the tent of Holofernes, till they told him of her.
Judith 14:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But when they had recovered him, he fell at Judith’s feet, and reverenced her, and said, Blessed art thou in all the tabernacle of Judah, and in all nations, which hearing thy name shall be astonished.
Judith 15:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when they that were in the tents heard, they were astonished at the thing that was done.
1 Maccabees 9:66 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And he smote Odomera and his brethren, and the children of Phasiron in their tent.
2 Maccabees 10:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And they kept eight days with gladness, as in the feast of the tabernacles, remembering that not long afore they had held the feast of the tabernacles, when as they wandered in the mountains and dens like beasts.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4638, grouped by book.

Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 25 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
2 Peter 2 usages, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4638 FAQ

What does skenoma (σκήνωμα) mean?

Skenoma (Strong's G4638) is a Greek word most simply glossed "tabernacle". skenoma (skay'-no-mah) n. 1. an encampment 2. (figuratively) the Temple (as God's residence), the body (as an abode for the soul)

How many times is skenoma (σκήνωμα) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 74 linked usages for Strong's G4638 across 25 books.

Where can I study skenoma (σκήνωμα) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4638 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate skenoma (σκήνωμα)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as tabernacle and god. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4638 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 63 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4638, with linked reader references where each row is available.